Darly Morey We're not necessarily using the 2026 HOU first-round pick in the draft It could be used for moves around the draft This just gives us more tools to make the moves that we think will help our future more than we saw--Jared who we gave up

Daryl Morey The Jared McCain deal we felt that we see Jared as someone who is more likely to help a team in the future We thought that the draft picks we got will help us more in the future and could of helped us this deadline

Daryl Morey The big move was with Jared Because we're playing well we were trying to upgrade the team and add to the team now We understand that we were looking to add now and nothing materialized

Austin Ainge in June 2025 on manipulating draft lottery odds You won't see that this year

Darly Morey We like our chances in the East We feel like we're in the mix with the top teams there obviously we gotta prove that on the court Folks have speculated on the improvements of our East competitors I don't see it There weren't any needle-movers in my opinion

Bobby Marks I had a team text me last night after this came out this is a team not in the lottery and they said they would basically write a blank check if they had the opportunity to pick in the top 3 of this year's draft based on what the fines could be here

Windhorst on why Cleveland is doing the Harden deal The key here is that the Cavs are moving away from believing in the Core 4 and I think the genesis of this is because they're worried that Donovan is not going to re-sign this summer